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Chapter 1 Lecture
Chapter 1: Models, Measurements, and Vectors
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Goals for Chapter 1
• To know standards and units and be able to do unit conversions.
• To express measurements and calculated information with the correct number of significant figures.
• To be able to add and subtract vectors both graphically and analytically.
• To be able to break down vectors into x- and y- components.
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Measurement
• Physics is an experimental science. • Observe phenomena in nature. • Make predictions.
• Models • Hypotheses • Theories • Laws
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Units of Measurement
• Cultural • "cubit," "span," "foot," "mile" • Changes with time and location
• 1889 by the General Conference on Weights and Measures • Systéme International • [See Appendix A in back of book]
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Three Fundamental S.I. Units Which We Will Use: • Time
• Second (s) • Length
• Meter (m) • Mass
• Kilogram (kg)
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The Second
• Originally tied to the length of a day. • Now, exceptionally accurate.
• Atomic clock • 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a low-energy
transition in Cs • In the microwave region
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The Meter – The Original Definition of 1791
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The Meter – More Recently
• Now tied to Kr discharge and counting a certain number of wavelengths.
• Exceptionally accurate, in fact redefining c, speed of light.
• New definition is the distance that light can travel in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 s.
• So accurate that it loses only 1 second in 30 million years.
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The Kilogram
• The reference cylinder is kept in Sevres, France. • A more modern, atomic reference is hoped for,
waiting for a precise atomic technique.
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The Reference Kilogram - Figure 1.3
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You Can Adjust the Fundamental Units – Powers of 10 • Imagine trying to measure the distance from San
Francisco, CA to Charlotte, NC in meters. • Instead, we attach prefixes to the units that
adjust their size by powers of ten. • In this case, kilo (or "x103") would likely be
chosen. • The distance would then be reported as
4,621 km or 4.6 Mm. • Getting good at converting units will be very
important to us. • Use Table 1.1.
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Table 1.1
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The Powers of Ten are Dramatic – Figure 1.4
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Conversions
• "Practice, practice, practice." • Problems will come in many different styles of
measurement, but you will ultimately need to get back to (m), (kg), and (s) if your answers are going to fit other calculations.
• You'll need to overcome two hurdles: • Derived units • English à S.I.
• Let's examine each.
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Derived Units
• The science will wait until we find it in a subsequent chapter. First, we should examine some units from those chapters. • Imagine you need to work with energy. • The unit for energy is the Joule (J) and it's
built from other units: in this case, kg m2/s2. • Having mass in g or distance in cm … errors
like that will destroy your answer.
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English à S.I.
• In the United States, we often encounter measurements in miles, feet, pounds, quarts and gallons.
• It's useful to memorize one conversion for displacement, one for volume, and one for mass. Everything else could be reached by converting orders of magnitude.
• Mass is tricky. English units assume standard earth gravity and relate kg to lb even though kg is a mass and lb is a force.
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English à S.I. II
• Personal favorites for English to SI are listed below. • Displacement: 2.54 centimeters = 1 inch. • Mass: 454 grams = 1 pound. • Volume: 1 liter = 1.06 quarts.
• You could certainly choose a different set.
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time speed
4.3 light-years = time it takes for light to travel distance Distance = time × speed Now do it…
Unit Conversion
Alpha Centauri is the closest "star." It is 4.3 light-years away. How many kilometers away is the star from earth?
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Write down: What do you know? What are we trying to get to?
What's the speed (rate)? Speed of light = 3 × 108 m/s
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Precision and Significant Figures
• Your measurement tools have limitations, and your reported results need to reflect those limitations.
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"Am I significant?"
• At the risk of making data feel unwanted, we dare not report everything our calculator tells us. (Please forgive the anthropomorphism.) • Try this. Divide 10 (one SF) by 3 (one SF)
and your calculator will tell you 3.33333333. • If you report this answer, the reader will
believe you have measured carefully to billionths of the unit you are using.
• What can happen? It's possible that bolt holes will fail to line up.
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• In the "world of vectors" 1+1 does not necessarily equal 2.
• Graphically?
Adding graphically
Vector addition
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Vector addition
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• In the "world of vectors" 1+1 does not necessarily equal 2.
• Graphically?
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Or, decompose the vectors into components, then solve.
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Just in case your trigonometry is rusty, let's review. • Try Example 1.6 to check yourself.
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Using Components to Add Vectors
Example 1.7: Vector has a magnitude of 50 cm and direction of 30º, and vector has a magnitude of 35 cm and direction 110º (both angles measured ccw from ). What is the resultant vector ?
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